"La arbo havas foliojn kaj radikojn."
Translation:The tree has leaves and roots.
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I, too, use foliage to remember what "leaf". However, what I think the problem here is that "leaves" is plural, but "foliage" is singular.
The word for "tree" is "arbo". The word for "trees" is "arboj", but the word for "forest" is "arbaro". The -ar- suffix deals with "a collection of things taken as a whole."
All the same, the true word for "foliage" is "foliaro". "Folio" refers to a single leaf, "folioj" refers to multiple leaves, but "foliaro" refers to a single entity made up of many leaves.
It's like this: "La arboj estas densa" - "The trees are dense" refers to many trees that are each individually dense, although the forest itself may have a lot of room to take a stroll through. However, "La arbaro estas densa" refers to a forest of many trees that are dense and compact altogether, although the trees themselves might be small and thin.
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